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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!blit.engr.sgi.com!nate From: nate@blit.engr.sgi.com (Nate Tuck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 19 Mar 1997 19:34:03 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5gpf3b$j99@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blit.engr.sgi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37355 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6384 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29269 In article <5gpcf9$767@flea.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote: > * 'real time' extensions in access and data layout. Useful for video > editing, not useful for anything else. Not to pick nits, but there is more diversity to the world than video editing and text newsfeeds. Anybody who has some sort of latency requirements is a potential beneficiary. Video is one of many, most text newsfeeds aren't. nate